Porto potti

[romanyrose]

I am selling up and having a debate with fellow boater who says cassette toilet shouldn't  be left

to my mind it's part of bathroom and if not required can be replaced by new owner. I welcome 

members comments. 

[Lady M]

I once bought a boat that included a fairly full cassette toilet!  I think it probably depends on the condition of the toilet.  Obviously it should be left clean and empty.  Perhaps also if the seller could make useful use of the toilet after selling the boat they might decide to keep it.

[Mac of Cygnet]

You're right.  I bought my boat with one  (and spare lower half), used it for 15 years, and it was still there when I sold.

[tree monkey]

1 hour ago, romanyrose said:

I am selling up and having a debate with fellow boater who says cassette toilet shouldn't  be left

to my mind it's part of bathroom and if not required can be replaced by new owner. I welcome 

members comments. 

 

Put it this way, I would have been unpleasantly surprised if I found no bog on my new boats first outing

[David Mack]

No hard and fast rule, as long as the advert is clear whether or not the toilet is included.

But why would you take it out? Do you need it after you have sold up? Better to leave it for the new owner - they can then choose between using it or replacing it.

[Lady M]

I kept the toilet when I sold my second boat because it was better than the one on the boat I was retaining.

[alan_fincher]

Leave it - why would any rational purchaser want to replace it if it is externally clean and in good order, unless they wanted to do composting.

 

I had a similar discussion when I bought Flamingo - the seller was really surprised that I didn't want him to take away the mattress.  As we had turned up to start a long trip back to our home territory I would not have wanted to be sleeping on the floor!

[Tonka]

2 hours ago, Lady M said:

I once bought a boat that included a fairly full cassette toilet!  I think it probably depends on the condition of the toilet.  Obviously it should be left clean and empty.  Perhaps also if the seller could make useful use of the toilet after selling the boat they might decide to keep it.

I bought a 3 year old boat which had never had the toilet tank pumped out. Took ages getting it out. The man asked where we had come from. When we said the boat was moored 200 yards away, he said that he had never seen it was when we knew

[David Schweizer]

We left two clean Porta Pottis on Helvetia when we sold it, along with a spare cassette. We were giving up boating and they were of no use to us.

[Momac]

I can't understand the thinking behind this.

If the toilet is in poor condition then perhaps fit a new toilet. 

 

[Tonka]

Surely if the toilet was there when they viewed the boat then it should be there when sold

[Lady M]

I removed mine before putting the boat on brokerage, and made it clear in the information I gave that the new owner would need to buy their own.  As far as I was concerned, the sale price included the lack of loo.

[jonathanA]

When we were looking at boats there were a couple where a condition of sale would have been that the porta potties were NOT included in the sale....  yuk! (Condition of them not that they were cassette bogs just to be clear)

 

We did have an unpleasant surprise on the boat we bought when we found the PO tank was full a couple of hours into a 6 day trip back to our mooring...

Edited January 29 by jonathanA
Clarification

[alan_fincher]

11 hours ago, David Schweizer said:

We left two clean Porta Pottis on Helvetia when we sold it, along with a spare cassette. We were giving up boating and they were of no use to us.

 

And you donated us a complete one that now lives on Sickle.  You must have been well supplied with Porta Pottis!

[David Schweizer]

12 hours ago, alan_fincher said:

 

And you donated us a complete one that now lives on Sickle.  You must have been well supplied with Porta Pottis!

 

Yes we were, We had a habit of "inheriting" them almost brand new from people who had bought them for use by grand children on camping/caravanning holidays. 

[BilgePump]

I find this thread quite amusing but the original question has me wondering whether it's a British kind of hangup. Everyone here seems to be of the sensible persuasion and finds the idea of removing it a bit weird, but obviously there are people out there who would yak at the thought of the loo staying. We all use hotels, sleep in beds and use bathrooms used by many before, we use the pub loo, work loo etc etc. Sure it needs to be left clean and empty but if the seller has no future use for it then it should go with the boat. If they wish to retain it, or the mattress, chairs, lamps etc then that should be made clear in the advert.

[Graham Davis]

Thousands of second hand caravans and motorhomes get sold every year and I have never heard anyone complain about taking over a used PortaPoti.

Some people really do need to get a life!!

Edited January 30 by Graham Davis

[Alan de Enfield]

29 minutes ago, Graham Davis said:

Thousands of second hand caravans and motorhomes get sold every year and I have never heard anyone complain about taking over a used PortaPoti.

Some people really do need to get a life!!

 

When we had our house built for us I actually commented to SWMBO - "do you realise this is the 1st house that we have had where nobody else has used the toilets" !

[ditchcrawler]

8 minutes ago, Alan de Enfield said:

 

When we had our house built for us I actually commented to SWMBO - "do you realise this is the 1st house that we have had where nobody else has used the toilets" !

Apart from the hairy arsed builders 

[Alan de Enfield]

3 minutes ago, ditchcrawler said:

Apart from the hairy arsed builders 

 

Nope, they had their own 'toilet cabin' and we were living on site.

[carlt]

I was in the process of buying a house and, just before completion, we got the keys to measure up for our furniture.

 

The vendor had removed the toilet and bathroom sink, all the light fittings, leaving dangling wires, the kitchen cabinet doors and every internal door handle.

 

Needless to say I pulled out of the sale.

[Hudds Lad]

28 minutes ago, carlt said:

I was in the process of buying a house and, just before completion, we got the keys to measure up for our furniture.

 

The vendor had removed the toilet and bathroom sink, all the light fittings, leaving dangling wires, the kitchen cabinet doors and every internal door handle.

 

Needless to say I pulled out of the sale.

Back in 1977 when Mum bought the house we were moving back from Leicester to after Dad died, the vendor took the carpets, underlay, curtains and light bulbs. They also sold the contents of the oil tank that fired the heating to a local farmer. These things were all supposed to be left with the sale. It was a bloody cold winter for us with just the gas fire in the main room  

[BilgePump]

48 minutes ago, carlt said:

I was in the process of buying a house and, just before completion, we got the keys to measure up for our furniture.

 

The vendor had removed the toilet and bathroom sink, all the light fittings, leaving dangling wires, the kitchen cabinet doors and every internal door handle.

 

Needless to say I pulled out of the sale.

I've heard of curtains, light bulbs etc being taken but to remove the bathroom contents etc is bonkers.

[carlt]

1 minute ago, BilgePump said:

I've heard of curtains, light bulbs etc being taken but to remove the bathroom contents etc is bonkers.

It was a new suite (presumably installed to sell the house).

 

What I didn't get was why take the toilet and sink but leave the bath?

[BilgePump]

Just now, carlt said:

It was a new suite (presumably installed to sell the house).

 

What I didn't get was why take the toilet and sink but leave the bath?

Only a shower in the new abode? I know we all get sentimental about things but a toilet is not something that I'd be hawking from place to place.